Recent events in the world and at the University prompt us to write to underscore and affirm the Divinity School’s fundamental commitment to fostering an intellectual environment in which students can flourish in their work and make important contributions to scholarship and community.

Nicholas Posegay, AB’16, has won a Gates Cambridge Scholarship, one of only 36 U.S. recipients. A graduate of our Religion Studies program, Posegay will pursue a PhD in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.

The groundhog has predicted another six weeks of winter, but Spring Quarter will arrive, and with it courses including "The Discovery of Paganism," "Gender, Power, and Religion in Early Medieval Europe," and "Religious Diversity as a Philosophical Problem."

Professor Esra Özyürek of the London School of Economics and Political Science will present a public lecture entitled "Wrong Emotions for the Holocaust: Invisible Contributions of the Turkish- and Arab-Germans to the Cosmopolitan Memory Culture."